--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "David Hall" <dchall8_at_t...> wrote:
> I thought I had an original idea this morning before reading all the
> discussion about compost tea and mad cow disease. Let me go through
> my thought process.
>
> Many farmers and ranchers are going to some effort to fence off
> their water sources to keep livestock out of the water. The idea
> behind that is that animals need to drink fresh water, not polluted
> water. But when the livestock get in the water, all the bodily
> functions take place. If the water is a stream or river, the wastes
> drift downstream with microbes working on them all the way. But in
> most cases, the water is a pond dug specifically to provide water
> for the animals. Over fertilization is easy to achieve in a closed
> pond with animals wandering through it all day.
>
> In nature, animals love to get into the fresh water, so the fencing
> is working against what the animals would do normally. It occurs to
> me that an animal in a virgin stream or even a lake/pond would pick
> up microbes on the hair and skin from the water. Many animals take
> mud or dust baths, so apparently there is something in the soil that
> the animals need to have on their skin, hair, or feathers. If
> plants can have 10-20 layers of beneficial microbes growing
> invisibly outside in the open air, why can't animals? Has anyone
> done this research?
>
> Could there be a benefit to routine spraying of livestock with
> aerated compost tea to keep an active culture of beneficial microbes
> on their hides, hair, wool, or feathers?
>
> David Hall
> San Antonio, TX
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